What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem but games worth playing.
Wise Words: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Within one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) than all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world.
Wise Words: Barry Lopez
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
Wise Words: Sam Levenson
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we’ll find it.
Wise Words: Elizabeth Benedict
Lessons for writers: First, work like a maniac because no one else will do it for you. Second, know that art matters. Next, understand that fiction is about transformation and that change is possible. And, finally, make the surface of writing lively, fun-filled, and funny, even if the characters are in excruciating pain.
Wise Words: Robert Anton Wilson: problems
We should feel excited about the problems we confront and our ability to deal with them. Solving problems is one of the highest and most sensual of all our brain functions.
Wise Words: Niels Bohr: truth
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Wise Words: William Carlos Williams
The proper response to life is applause.
Wise Words: Ann Patchett: writing
[Grace Paley] taught me that writing must not be compartmentalized. You don’t step out of the stream of your life to do your work. Work was the life, and who you were as a mother, teacher, friend, citizen, activist, and artist were all the same person. People like to ask me if writing can be taught, and I say yes. I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to write dialogue, maybe even how to construct a plot. But I can’t teach you how to have something to say.
Wise Words: Mark Twain: left out
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but of what is left out of it.
Jill J. Jensen 
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